* Gaal.
Of this person we know no more than is here recorded. He was
probably one of the descendants of the Canaanites, who hoped,
from the state of the public mind and their disaffection to
Abimelech, to cause a revolution, and thus to restore the
ancient government as it was under Hamor, the father of
Shechem. Josephus says he was a man of authority, who
sojourned with them, with his armed men and kinsmen; and that
the Shechemites desired that he would allow them a guard
during the vintage.
* the people.
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